You must rival the German Luftwaffe (air force) to ensure you have air superiority, which is important no matter what land doctrine you go down. In your national focus tree, you should go down the ‘Positive Heroism’ root as opposed to the ‘Collectivist Propaganda’ as you get Konstantin Rokossovsky (Armor Genius) and higher research reduction times, making you more advanced by the time you go to war in 1941. The Soviet-German Research Pact, Great Purge, and Molotov-Ribberntrop Pact must be followed, as you obtain a higher national unity, research bonuses on medium tanks, and take Eastern Poland after the Germans invade Poland in 1939. Check out the below picture of a spoiler of how it all turned out. I pushed back slowly, eventually liberating my cities. They must have only left behind a token force, thinking I was all but beat. It was only a matter of time.īut I noticed something, the German attacks weren’t hitting me as hard, I zoomed the map out for the first time and saw that the Wehrmacht had pushed to deep into Russia. Soon I was scraping the bottom of the barrel and I had run out of rifles. I had to micro-manage every region, sometimes pulling troops out of a battle I was slowly losing to reinforce another battle I was quickly losing. Holding against far larger forces of German troops. In the woods, with no factories, no production and quickly burning through my small stockpile of weapons my troops fought on. Here again they were able to halt the advancing Germans. My troops reached a dense forest to the North and dug in deep. I issued a general retreat and I figured this was the end. Now I grew more ambitious - how long could I keep Poland free? My line collapsed when Hungary joined the Axis and the Germans opened a new front to the South. A month passed by and still Poland stood. When the time came, the Germans hit me hard and fast, but my deeply dug in troops were holding the line. With low technology and weak production, it was all about cheap and easy. 
Before the war, I built bunkers along the border and shifted all production to infantry weapons. My only goal for the game was to hold out longer than that. In the real war, Poland withstood the German and Soviet invasion for barely more than a month. One of the rarely championed pleasures of a Paradox game is the ability to put yourself into what I call an ‘unwinnable scenario.’ Take, for example, my recent game as Poland. But I’d like to take a moment to focus on the little guys. The obvious choices – Germany, USA, UK, USSR and Japan – all offer amazing gameplay experiences. Hearts of Iron 4 is a grand military strategy game that lets you play as any country in the world during World War 2.
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